Hi all, The hamster hiccupped last night and we went offline for a little. Luckily, we brought the new back-up online Friday, so it was there waiting, BUT it wasn't as smooth a transition as I might have liked.

We're doing more today to make sure the back-up can handle what it needs to and to get the main machine running like it should. In the meantime, you might hit a slow page load or two, especially as the west-coast people wake up and start getting online. Jay

Has that blocked some users from logging in? User "corynauman" get's automatically logged out when he logs in.

User "corynauman" appears to have gotten himself banzed, but I don't offhand know how or why.

For serious? Now that is funny.

BTW, he says "I am? for what? what'd I do?". He wants to post about hitting IC and how he has no tent and /or enough rack.

Well, did a bit of digging since I recall something about a buddy of yours getting the banz and it seems he was a driveby victim of the spidermonkey fiasco due to his "poast" thread. Seems it wasn't clear he wasn't a new account of the monkey's so got the banz. Dropping the Blue a PM will probably clear it up.

1. The primary drive of the dropzone database server crashed and was not recoverable. It was an older server.

2. We fell over to our new back up.

3. The back-up could not handle the traffic well, and performance was poor during peak traffic times.

4. Yesterday, our developers upgraded the back up from 4 GB of ram, to 16 GB of ram, and performance improved. It has handled traffic for the last 24 hours or so without issue.

5. We upgraded the main hardware and RAM to give us protection from drive failures and additional performance improvements.

As of now, we're still on the back-up, which is working fine. Obviously, though, we need to switch back over to the main server. When that happens, there's going to be another outage for probably 20 minutes. This'll be around 4:30 PM Pacific time, Thursday.